Golf-ball tee



Patented Feb. 9, 1926.

UNITED STATES EDMUND JOSEPH BYRNE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

GOLF-BALL TEE.

Application filed November 23, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, EDMUND Josnrrr BYRNE, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 3 Albemarle Street, Pic- 5 cadilly, London, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Golf- Ball Tees, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to golf ball tees of the kind comprising a rubber base at one end of which is a cup or support upon which the ball may be placed in raised position from the ground and having an anchor weight for preventing the tee from leaving its position. It is inevitable in the use of such tees that the cup portion receives repeated blows from the club and ultimately is broken from the main body. Further the anchor weight breaks away from the rubber of the base and consequently the tee becomes incomplete from the point of view that it loses its anchorage.

It; is the object of the invention to overcome these defects and in accordance therewith I provide a golf ball tee of the kind referred to having means for reinforcing the cup portion so as to prevent damage thereto and means for preventing the anchor weight or weights breaking away from the rubber of the base.

The reinforcement for the cup portion consists of a layer or annulus of what is known in the rubber industry as insertion i. e. fabric such as canvas or linen coated with rubber, this reinforcement being located around the angle or shoulder of the cup this being the part of the cup most liable to be struck by the club. The anchor weight or weights is or are embedded in and surrounded by the rubber of the base and may if desired be coated or covered with one or more layers of insertion or in lieu of embedding the anchor weight in the rub her it may be attached thereto by means of a stud, rivet or the like passing through a hole in the base, the rubber surrounding the hole being reinforced by a layer or layers of insertion.

In order that the said invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into Serial No. 517,281.

effect, the same will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional view illustrating one form of the invention in which the anchor weight is embedded in the rubber and Figure 2 illustrates a modification in which the anchor weight is attached to the base, the rubber of which is reinforced.

1 represents the rubber base provided with a cup portion 2 on which the golf ball may be supported. Embedded in the rubber around the angle or shoulder of the cup is an insertion reinforcement consisting either of a layer or layers 3 as shown in Figure 1 or an annulus 3 as shown in Figure 2. In the form illustrated in Figure 1 an anchor weight 4 is embedded in and surrounded by the rubber of the base, the anchor weight being coated or covered with a layer of insertion 5. Both the annulus 3 and the coated weight are introduced in the process of building up the rubber form and the insertion may be vulcanized together with the rubber d ring the moulding oper ation. Instead of one weight f as illustrated two or more thin metal discs may if desired be employed.

In Figure 2 two anchor weights & and 6 are attached to the rubber base by means of the rivet 7 passing through a hole in the base and layers 8 of the insertion are embedded in the base to reinforce the same and prevent the anchor weight being broken or torn away. The invention may be embodied in a double or triple tee as well as in a single tee.

What I claim anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. A golf ball tee comprising a rubber base, a reinforced ball supporting cup portion, an anchor weight for said base, and insertion material between said weight and the rubber of the base.

2. A golf ball tee, comprising a rubber base, a cup portion, reinforcing insertion in said cup portion, and an anchor weight fixed immovably to said base, and insertion material between said weight and th adjacent rubber.

3. A golf ball tee comprising a rubber base, a cup portion, reinforcing insertion in 5. A golf ball tee, comprising a rubber 10 said cup portion, and an anchor Weight embase having a raised rim at one end to form bedded in the rubber of said base. aball supporting cup, reinforcing material 4. A golf ball tee comprising a rubber in said base and extending into said rim,

5 base, a ball supporting cup portion, rein- Weight means embedded in the rubber at -forcing material in said cup portion, an the other end of the base, and insertion ma- 15 anchor weight covered with insertion material covering said Weight means.

Y terial and embedded in and surrounded by the rubber of the base. EDMUND JOSEPH BYRNE. 

